Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS): Recent submissions
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Title:Understanding the development of digital governance : a study of the relations between institutions, organisations, and actors in the member states of the OECD and EU Author(s):LEOSK, Nele
Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis is concerned with the development of digital governance. The main goal of the thesis is to analyse and explain patterns and levels of digital governance through the lens of actorcentred institutionalism and ...
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Title:Delayed transitional justice : accounting for timing and cross-country variation in transitional justice trajectories Author(s):MENDES, Mariana S.Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This dissertation aims, first, at accounting for the timing of implementation of Transitional Justice (TJ) policies and, second, at comparing TJ trajectories and outcomes in countries that had negotiated transitions from ...
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Title:The post-truth narrative in post-Smolensk Poland Author(s):SZTAJDEL, Agnieszka LuizaDate:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Long before the post-truth concept became popular, the aftermath of the Smolensk Catastrophe in Poland, in which 95 high-ranking Polish officials died in a plane accident, saw the emergence of a conspiracy-narrative of the ...
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Title:Pathways to successful state formation Author(s):JÜDE, Johannes
Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Version:Chapter 1 and 6 of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'The possibility of state formation and the limitations of liberal international state-building' (2018) in the journal 'Journal of international relations and development'Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This dissertation analyzes and compares successful and unsuccessful trajectories of state formation in six states in Sub-Saharan Africa. My research has been primarily motivated by two observations: (i) the formation of ...
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Title:Parliamentary and presidential systems : the role of parties and the danger of authoritarian populism Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean; THIEBAULT, Jean-LouisDate:2020Citation:Ivor CREWE and David SANDERS (eds), Authoritarian populism and liberal democracy, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 169-183Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:To flourish under liberal-democratic rule, a parliamentary or a presidential system does not depend primarily on the existence of strong leadership, but on the presence of strong political parties. The continuous existence ...
